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Review from Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 6

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, September 25, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 6
Published: November 2014

So it happened that while reviewing a second promotional package from Canadian label “Hypnotic Dirge Records”, I found two absolute non-Metal releases. In this case, probably the weakest album from this label’s camp. I may seem cynical, but in the case of Ekove Efrits, the main factor is the project’s country of origin - Iran. Even in this much globalised world, a heavy music project from the Near East is st...

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Review from Necromance Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, July 20, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Necromance Webzine
Published: July 12, 2014
*Google translation of Spanish review

From Iran comes to us this very interesting band. Define it becomes quite complicated because they move so many different records that I have not clear. Only have a common line, the nostalgia. From this root whispered voices combined with clean vocals with ragged vocals with electronic sequences (enough), female vocals occasionally a violin, and all this with great taste and quite successful. Rea...

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Review from Disfactory Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, July 11, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Disfactory Webzine
Published: July 10, 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

The progress of the recording moniker Ekove Efrits continues with "determined disregard" and now no one is amazed to see that much in the evanescent expansion undertaken by Count De Efrit firmly in his music. The project continues his exploration of the darkest and most hidden intricacies of the soul, and the negativity of the "vacuous sense" of life, that path has distanced itself from the prima...

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Review from Deaf Sparrow Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, July 6, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Deaf Sparrow Webzine
Published:
July 5, 2014
Original Link

Hypnotic Dirge Records from Canada likes to sign artists from all over the globe including Russia, France, Italy, Ukraine, and Germany.  Ekove Efrits is an Iranian band helmed by the Count De Efrit, the ominous mastermind who has experimented with depressive black metal, Gothic metal, and trip hop, creating an eclectic selection of work. With his latest effort, Nowhere, Ekove Efrits focuses more on the Gothic, and has combined effo...

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Review from Pest Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, June 14, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Pest Webzine
Published: June 1, 2014

Fourth album from this Iranian one-man-band I have reviewed a couple of times before, but unfortunately an album that starts to dissociate Ekove Efrits from the Black Metal scene and attempts to introduce it in the Alternative Ambient Electro (at times even Trip-Hop) world where I'm sure it will have no chance at all, zero! The melodies are beautiful again, Count de Efrit knows his way around the synths, keys and piano, but his clean vocal...

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Review from Aristocrazia Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Aristocrazia Webzine
Published: March 24 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

Count De Efrit is an artist with a clear vision: the Iranian musician in the past had already sent clear signals about its willingness to diversify the project proposal Ekove Efrits with "Conceptual Horizon" and maintain a more rough and tied to the history of depression in the Silent Path of the debut "Mourner Portraits" . Then waiting for the release of the new album, the first of the two sid...

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Review from Volumes of Sin Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Volumes of Sin Webzine
Published: March 16, 2014

Ekove Efrits is comprised singularly of the Iranian Count De Efrit, who formed the project in 2001. After four demos and a split, De Efrit found himself picked up by Belarus label Possession Productions who released his debut full-length effort Suicidal Rebirth in 2008. His following album, Hypermnesia, would find an independent release in 2010 before he landed a deal with Hypnotic Dirge Records to release 2011's endeavor, Conc...

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Review from Les Eternels Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, February 28, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Les Eternels Webzine
Published: February 21, 2014
*Google translation of French review

Imagine for a moment a woman of infinite class that walks you to the top of his oversized heels, impeccable maintenance. It arrives at your height and loose a loud burp. The woman remains beautiful, but it still loses a bit of glamor. Another similar situation: you are in the restaurant and you ordered a " medallion partridge in sauce juice frozen truffle ", it throws. The server brings you,...

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Review from Rock Metal Essence Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, February 28, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Rock Metal Essence Webzine
Published: February 27, 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

The Ekove Efrits are a project atmospheric / post-rock led by multi-instrumentalist N. Saman coming from Tehran, Iran, returning to the market in December 2013 with their fourth album, "Nowhere."

A disc that continues the evolution and maturation of the songwriting of this composer through fifty minutes dark music, enveloping, mysterious and atmospheric, steeped in the tradition of bla...

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Review from Legacy Magazine; Issue #89

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, February 28, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Legacy Magazine; Issue #89
Published: February 2014
*Google translation of German review

The Iranian Count de Efrit himself says that he sees its origins in Black / Gothic Metal, which is increasingly open to influences from post-rock, doom, experimental and ambient music over the years. These are already clearly heard on the debut album 'Suicidal Rebirth', will be on the following works 'Hypermnesia' and 'The Conceptual Horizon' reinforced, and 'Nowhere' is a logical conti...

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Review from Desolation Infinite Blogspot

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, February 23, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Desolation Infinite Blogspot
Published: February 21, 2014

Nowhere is the 4th full length album of the Iranian one man atmospheric band Ekove Efritz, a project of solo musician Saman N.  While I am not conversant with any of his works, I am quickly getting acquainted with his grand talent of musical creations.  I now stand curious as I am reluctant into diverging my ears into his earlier works with the his music after listening to this cinematic piece of artful music.  Ekove E...

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Review from Pure Nothing Worship Magazine; Issue 2

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, February 17, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Pure Nothing Worship Magazine; Issue 2
Published: March 2014

"Nowhere" is the new full-length of this strange one-man-band from Teheran, Iran. This album offers ten songs packed into 52 minutes that are hard to compare with any other bands. An interesting combination of quiet melodies with strong drums and bass guitar over which are entwined depressive male vocals and angelic female vocals which were sung by Megan Tassaker (Avrigus, Lycanthia). On the album you can hear a lot ...

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Review from Metal Curse Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, February 6, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Curse Webzine
Published: February 3, 2014

Ekove Efrits hails from Tehran, Iran, and is the primary band of Count De Efrit, who is also the sole member of Silent Path. The difference between the two is that Silent Path is more depressive and droning, where Ekove Efrits is far more experimental. I’m tempted to call the band’s style Post-Black Metal, but I don’t know if that would fit, either. This is some weird shit. You can tell the influence of bands like Burzum a...

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Review from Sic Maggot Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, February 4, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Sic Maggot Webzine
Published: February 3, 2013
*Google translation of Czech review

Today, the review will look back on one very pleasant surprise with which you at the very end of the article recommend that you immediately went to get it, because it's just worth it ... but I probably should not say this early, huh?

Let's start again and slowly but fairly simple question. How much do you know metal bands from Iran? I have no doubt that among you will find connoisseurs who tell m...

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Review from Lords of Metal Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, February 1, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Lords of Metal Webzine
Published: February 1, 2014

So here we have the third full-length by the Iranian one-man band Ekove Efrits called Nowhere. Predecessor Conceptual Horizon took me completely by surprise with its utterly original mash-up of ambient, doom, black metal trip-hop and more and left me almost without words to describe it. So what to expect from Nowhere? Once again a lot of styles are employed, ambient, almost gothic female vocals, minimalist piano, flurries of ...

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Review from Alternativ Musik Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, January 31, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Alternativ Musik Webzine
Published: January 30, 2014
*Google translation of German review

Ekove Efrits is a one-man project that is unique in its own way. Not only that, Saman N. - Or also known as Count of Efrits - comes from Iran, where metal is not exactly welcome. He also creates his own really sounding music universe in the post-Black Metal. While you might think when listening repeatedly to Ulver, but only because they give also do not bother to adhere to genre conventio...

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 EKOVE EFRITS - NOWHERE

  Released: December 7, 2013
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Ambient Black Metal

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